ChainGPT is hiring a Head of Accounting - Europe

Responsibilities

• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes across various entities, ensuring precision, completeness, and timeliness.
• Manage the general ledger, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, FX revaluation, and supporting schedules.
• Establish and maintain a standard close calendar and checklist, driving the close process with clear deadlines and accountability.
• Monitor and clear a monthly exceptions queue, addressing missing invoices, unidentified flows, and stale reconciliation items.
• Ensure all documentation is audit-ready, with organized evidence chains and clean support for every material balance and transaction.
• Manage bookkeeping across all entities, ensuring consistent policies, coding, and documentation standards.
• Maintain clean intercompany operations, including invoicing, intercompany reconciliations, and balances, with interest accruals where applicable.
• Support arm’s-length and related-party transactions with clear narratives and documentation, including agreements, approvals, invoices, and reconciliations.
• Lead end-to-end crypto transaction accounting across wallets, exchanges, networks, and tokens.
• Ensure crypto balances are reconciled and supported with strong audit trails, including wallet addresses, transaction hashes, and exchange statements.
• Maintain clear classification rules for crypto flows, such as revenue vs. other income, custody transfers vs. external payments, gas/fees, staking/yield, airdrops, and liquidity provision.
• Maintain schedules for realized vs. unrealized gains/losses and cost basis/lots for reporting and CPA support.
• Implement and maintain finance controls suitable for a lean team, including approvals, segregation of duties, and documentation standards.
• Maintain a compliance calendar in partnership with external advisors, ensuring recurring obligations are tracked and supported.
• Collaborate with external accountants, auditors, tax providers, and legal counsel to meet multi-jurisdiction requirements.
• Provide clear, management-ready reporting, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and concise variance narratives.
• Generate burn reporting and spend insights, identifying top vendors/categories, drivers, and recommendations for savings and efficiency.
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process, including annual budget and rolling forecast, with variance explanations.
• Maintain visibility across fiat accounts and crypto holdings, supporting payment operations with strong authorization and recordkeeping.
• Produce regular cash/treasury reporting, including balances, upcoming obligations, runway snapshot, and operational risk flags.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in accounting, controllership, or finance operations roles, with end-to-end ownership of close and reporting.
• Prior experience in web3/crypto companies, exchanges, or crypto-heavy operations.
• Strong technical accounting foundation with IFRS/GAAP-level knowledge relevant to the role.
• Experience with multi-entity accounting and operating across multiple jurisdictions.
• Crypto-native accounting experience, including wallets, exchanges, reconciliation, audit trails, and crypto-aware controls.
• Strong documentation discipline and high integrity, ensuring audit-ready documentation by default.
• Ability to operate in a lean, high-ownership environment, executing and improving systems simultaneously.
• Excellent written communication skills, able to explain financial issues clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Xero (core accounting).
• Proficiency in Cryptio (crypto accounting/reconciliation).

Nice to Have

• Bookkeeping and compliance experience across one or more of: US, SVG (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Panama, and UAE.
• Experience supporting audits, due diligence, or fundraising processes.
• Familiarity with crypto accounting tooling beyond Cryptio and/or blockchain analytics explorers.
• Basic SQL/data proficiency for financial analysis.

Benefits

• Collaborate with the core team on high-impact AI and Web3 products across the ecosystem.
• Remote-first setup with flexible hours, focused on outcomes, trust, and ownership.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based upside where applicable to the role.
• Fast-moving environment with direct collaboration across all team members, including senior management, and clear accountability with no micromanagement.
• Support to do your best work, including the tools you need, structured onboarding, and clear room to grow.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Team

Lean team

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

• 0–30 days: Learn current processes and data flows; stabilize close; document gaps; establish a clear close calendar and core reconciliation routines.
• 31–60 days: Strengthen reconciliations (crypto + fiat) and intercompany hygiene; implement tighter controls and evidence standards; deliver consistent monthly reporting.
• 61–90 days: Run a reliable close and reporting engine; keep books audit-ready; reduce operational risk; establish scalable accounting ops and cadence across crypto + fiat activity.

Additional Information: Employment Compliance and Confidentiality

• All employees will be onboarded through the official payroll and HR provider, managing employment documentation, tax withholdings, and compliance with legal requirements based on the employee’s country of residence.
• New hires must complete a Know Your Customer (KYC) verification, sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), execute an employment contract, and fulfill any additional legal requirements specific to their jurisdiction.
• This process ensures compliance, protects company information, and establishes a secure and professional employment relationship.

Employment Structure

• The position is offered on either an employee or contractor basis, depending on the location and role.
• Individuals will receive payment via direct deposit on a monthly basis.
• Additional details regarding compensation, benefits, and company policies will be provided during onboarding and outlined in the official employment agreement.

Compensation

• Salaries are paid in fiat currency via direct deposit on a monthly schedule, with payments issued on the first business day of each month.
• This structure ensures timely and transparent compensation aligned with local financial systems.

Probationary Period

• All new employees will undergo a 90-day probationary period, serving as a mutual evaluation phase.
• During this time, both the employee and the company can assess fit, performance, and long-term alignment with the role and company.

Other

• Payment via direct deposit on a monthly basis.
• Probationary period: 90 days.
• Onboarding includes KYC verification, NDA signing, employment contract execution, and fulfillment of legal requirements based on jurisdiction.
• Position offered on either employee or contractor basis depending on location and role.
• Compensation paid in fiat currency.